| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement | Mohammed Dib: Algeria recalled (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Dib, himself, has worked as a designer in a weaving factory (1945-47), and thus the technical and social aspects of the life of workers are rendered through the author's occupational experience. |
 | | Dib moves on to recount how in his late teens he, himself, became a teacher in a hamlet in the desert of Angade (on the frontiers with Morocco). |
 | | In his aphorisms, Dib praises solitude and slowness and is sorry to see evolution everywhere in the 20th century going in one direction: overestimating the role of sciences and techniques at the price of what he calls "la sagesse humaniste" (humanist wisdom). |
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